Food: I'm vegetarian, though not at all militant about it. Meaning,
if you ask, i'll tell you my reasons for being one, but I don't
proselytize it much and don't demand that everyone i'm around also
be one.

… light, math, poetry, how to be a better person, how to get
humanity to move a little faster (read: getting out to help push
when needed), creating sonic beauty from resonating strings and
oscillators (and happily riffing out), metacognition i.e. how to
think about thinking, identify and compensate for my biases, and
think more critically (a skill that _everyone_ should continue to
develop), developmental economics, how to make the lens through
which I see the world more accurate / less myopic.

Also, children - as in, that group of people who will drive the
world sooner than we think - and both the world we're leaving for
them as well as helping them (esp. the most disadvantaged of them)
to achieve the greatness that lives within them. To put it another
way, consider that, as humanity moves forward (as it inevitably
does), children are the leading edge.

… first and foremost, that you believe not only in yourself, but
humanity in general. Strongly. As in, _strongly_. We are one race
with infinite variations, there are _billions_ of us, and we each
have promise. If you advocate for the discrimination in any way of
one group of humans based on something as trivial as skin color,
sexual orientation or gender identity, then move along, for there
is nothing here for you.
... you believe that we can - and will - solve our own problems,
because we've done it countless times in our history on this
planet, without the help of otherworldly supernatural beings of any
sort.
… you like to rock \m/
… you're into science / skepticism / critical thinking, and can
discern science from pseudoscience / superstition / blind
ideology
… you consider the process to be as beautiful as the outcome
… the plight of those with the fewest opportunities in the world
moves you
… you are happy to live where you do but highly value experiencing
the beauty of people, places and cultures aside from your own as
well